Concern among workers and unions grows as COVID-19 spreads in factories
A deterioration in the situation of workers in Turkey, a country already notorious for a large number of fatalities in work-related accidents, is causing...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of people, sentences 114 for imprisonment over alleged links to...
Turkish government has issued detention warrants for dozens of people as it detained tens of them including military officers while İstanbul 22nd High Criminal Court...
Asylum seeker pushed back to Turkey by Greek authorities speaks of intolerable prison conditions
Mehtap Karpuzcu (35), one of the refugees on a boat that was pushed back to Turkey by the Greek coast guard on August 16,...
Academic fired from Istanbul Commerce University for giving Kurdish assignment
Dr. Bekir Tank, a history professor at İstanbul Commerce University, was dismissed from his job on August 31 for giving an assignment to his...
Turkish gov’t planning to dismiss 3,000 more military officers over alleged links to Gülen...
Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli on Wednesday said the government has identified 3,000 active duty military officers suspected of links to the Gülen movement...
Jailed journalist says in letter inmates forced to live in cells invaded by rats:...
A Turkish journalist who has been in jail since March 2018 on terrorism charges has written in a letter from prison about the “inhumanly”...
Turkish veteran journalist Acar, who said ‘My newspaper turned into a prison,’ in jail...
Mustafa Erkan Acar (45), a Turkish journalist with 22 years of experience, has been deprived of his freedom for 557 days as of Feb. 2,...
Turkish police conduct raids to detain 37 for using messaging app ByLock
Police teams conducted raids on 26 locations on Friday morning in an effort to detain 37 people due to their alleged use of the...
Turkey seeks extradition of dissident academic from UK over fabricated terrorism charges: report
The Turkish government is gearing up its efforts to file an extradition request for dissident academic and journalist Mahmut Akpınar, who took shelter in...
Germany denies Turkey’s judicial assistance request in Kurdish singer and activist Ferhat Tunç’s case
Official correspondence from Turkey’s consulate general in Frankfurt to the Justice Ministry in Ankara has revealed that a German prosecutor denied a request for...
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